Using Pages in a Word environment

I've tried but eventually gave up. It's just easier to stick with Word if you are sharing these documents with others who use Word exclusively.

My 2 cents!

 

^ liya is right. Pages and Word don't work well together. I'm fortunate to be in an environment where I can just use whatever I want; I hate Office (except Excel). I use Pages, but I'm transitioning to TextWrangler + LaTeX (for git support) once I figure out how to do MLA formatting in it.

 

I agreed with both above. I've tried to move to Pages where all my colleagues use word and it's not been something I've been able to stick with.

I work on large documents, with complex formatting and numbering. I find all of these get messed up on import to Pages . Also I always get font errors and macro problems.

Therefore unless you are working on something really basic I would find some way to use Word. If you do collaboration on documents, maybe give Word 365 Online a go as I find that very flexible and useful.

Taff

 

I'm resigned to the use of Windows in a VM using VMWare with Office installed there. That's the only way I can do what I need with all the Office specific stuff for work. I also have other programs that I use for work that's only available on Windows.